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Decorative drawing: a small American settlement seen from a low hill. Not a photograph of this place.

Rathbone, Ohio

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Concord Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43015. The Survey maps it on the Shawnee Hills quadrangle.

Rathbone within Delaware County

Then and now

1901 to 1992

The same ground, surveyed 91 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Rathbone, surveyed 1992
Topographic sheet of Rathbone, surveyed 1901

Compare 1901 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 2,517 shown

Museums hold 2,517 specimens collected within 10 miles of Rathbone between 1850 and 1975: 2,379 Animalia, 78 Plantae, 55 Fungi, 3 Unrecorded, 2 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. P. Morgan, A. Spreitzer & K. Borror, Adler, K. K. and others. Each is a physical object with a catalogue number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be concluded from a species being absent.

Image SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of unnamed1896F. L. StevensFlint.
Specimen of Dothidea Fr., 1818Dothidea Fr., 18181896F.L. Stevens
A photograph of the species Ectopistes migratorius, not of this specimenEctopistes migratorius (Linnaeus, 1766)1850Kugel, B. (Burt)near Selma, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Podiceps auritus, not of this specimenPodiceps auritus (Linnaeus, 1758)1860Ricke, A. S.Carlisle, Ohio, USA
Vernonia maxima Small1871Collector unspecifiedScioto
A photograph of the species Centronyx henslowii, not of this specimenCentronyx henslowii (Audubon, 1829)1872not recordedLicking Reservoir, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Ophioglossum vulgatum, not of this specimenOphioglossum vulgatum L.1873Hussey, J.
A photograph of the species Bonasa umbellus, not of this specimenBonasa umbellus (Linnaeus, 1766)1874not recordedSugar Grove, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Branta bernicla, not of this specimenBranta bernicla hrota (O.F.Müller, 1776)1874not recordedLake Erie, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Melospiza lincolnii, not of this specimenMelospiza lincolnii (Audubon, 1834)1874Wheaton, J. M. (John Maynard)Licking Reservoir, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Phalaropus lobatus, not of this specimenPhalaropus lobatus (Linnaeus, 1758)1874Jasper, T. (Theodore)Columbus, Scioto R., Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Zonotrichia leucophrys, not of this specimenZonotrichia leucophrys (J.R.Forster, 1772)1874not recordedColumbus, O, Ohio, USA

All 2,517 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

3 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Rathbone: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Shawnee Division QuarriesLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Shawnee Division QuarriesStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Union QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Delaware County

Storms nearby

4 since 2000

The National Weather Service names Rathbone in 4 storm reports between 2000 and 2023: 3 hail, 1 flash flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2016Flash FloodRathbone$500High water was reported over roadways. Some small tree branches and limbs were also reported down in Concord Township.
April 2023HailRathbone-no account filed
April 2003HailRathbone-no account filed
May 2000HailRathbone-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Delaware County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Scioto Village0.3 miles15
Whisper Trace0.7 miles15
Shawnee Hills2.7 miles15
Bellepoint3.4 miles15
Hyatts3.5 miles16
Bridlespur4.0 miles16
Nelson Farms4.2 miles16
Powell4.6 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1044863. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.